Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-19T05:53:34Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 310 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_GLDAS_NOAH10_M_E1_V002 -180.0,-60.0,180.0,90.0 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-04-29T04:00:00Z

This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the NOAH 2.7.1, GLDAS/NOAH experiment 001, for Version 2 of the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS-2). The data are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_GLDAS_NOAH10_3H_E1_V002 -180.0,-60.0,180.0,90.0 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-04-29T04:00:00Z

This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the NOAH 2.7.1, GLDAS/NOAH experiment 001, for Version 2 of the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS-2). The data are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SRDB_V1 -159.62,-78.02,175.5,78.0 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

This data set provides a soil respiration data database (SRDB), a near-universal compendium of published soil respiration (RS) data. Soil respiration, the flux of autotropically- and heterotrophically-generated ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]EDM_SA_VEGETATION -85.0,-15.0,-30.0,15.0 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

This model product contains the source code for the Ecosystem Demography Model (ED version 1.0) as well as model input and output data for a portion of South America including the Brazilian Amazon. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LC14_RISQUE -82.0,-34.0,-34.035,9.24 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

A simple GIS soil-water balance model for the Amazon Basin, called RisQue (Risco de Queimadasa -- Fire Risk), was used to conduct an analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of drought in moist tropical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2002 -180.0,-55.0,180.0,90.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z

The 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) measures overall progress toward environmental sustainability for 142 countries based on environmental systems, stresses, human vulnerability, social ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2005 -180.0,-55.0,180.0,90.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z

The 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 146 countries. The index provides a composite profile of national ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2000 -180.0,-55.0,180.0,90.0 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-11T05:00:00Z

The 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is an exploratory effort to construct an index that measures the ability of a nation's economy to achieve sustainable development, with the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H01_SHD -106.2,53.63,-98.29,55.93 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-23T05:00:00Z

The BOREAS HYD-01 team made several measurements related to soil moisture and soil properties. These soil hydraulic properties were determined at the flux tower sites based on analysis of in situ ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H6ACGSMD -106.29,53.37,-98.26,55.94 1993-08-01T00:00:00Z 1994-09-10T00:00:00Z 2013-01-23T05:00:00Z

This data set contains percent soil moisture (by weight) (and/or water content if there is a moss/humus layers measured from aircraft using a terrestrial gamma ray instrument. There is also data that ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_REGSOILR -111.0,50.09,-93.5,59.98 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 1991-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-23T05:00:00Z

This data set was gridded by BORIS staff from a vector data set received from Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS). The original data came in two parts that covered Saskatchewan and Manitoba. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_NLDAS_MOS0125_MC_V002 -125.0,25.0,-67.0,53.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-18T05:00:00Z

This monthly climatology data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the Mosaic land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_NLDAS_NOAH0125_MC_V002 -125.0,25.0,-67.0,53.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-16T05:00:00Z

This monthly climatology data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the Noah land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H06GRSMD -106.33,53.38,-98.23,57.0 1993-09-08T00:00:00Z 1994-09-05T00:00:00Z 2013-01-02T05:00:00Z

This data set contains percent soil moisture ground measurements. These data were collected on the ground along the various flight lines flown in the Southern and Northern Study Areas (SSA and NSA) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H06GRMSD -105.32,53.64,-98.23,55.94 1993-09-09T00:00:00Z 1994-09-05T00:00:00Z 2013-01-02T05:00:00Z

This data set contains water content measurements of the moss/humus layer, where it existed. These data were collected along various flight lines in the Southern and Northern Study Areas (SSA and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_BIOMEBGC -106.2,53.63,-98.29,55.9 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-12-20T05:00:00Z

BIOME-BGC is a general ecosystem process model designed to simulate biogeochemical and hydrologic processes across multiple scales (Running and Hunt, 1993). In this investigation, BIOME-BGC was used ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_REGSOILV -110.0,49.0,-89.0,60.0 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 1991-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-11-27T05:00:00Z

This data set is the original vector data set received from CanSIS. The data includes the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Attribute tables provide the various soil data for the polygons; there ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CD06_WATER_BALANCE_JIPARANA -63.4153,-12.9269,-60.015,-8.0333 1995-10-01T00:00:00Z 1996-08-31T00:00:00Z 2012-11-26T05:00:00Z

This data set provides simulated minimum, average, and maximum monthly rainfall, potential evapotranspiration, water deficit, and water surplus values for the Ji-Parana River basin, Rondonia, Brazil. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND01_PASTURE_NUTRIENTS -60.0,-15.0,-65.0,-8.0 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 2004-05-31T00:00:00Z 2012-11-26T05:00:00Z

This data set provides soil physical and chemical properties, and grass nutrient measurements of samples collected from 17 pasture sites located within the state of Rondonia in the southwestern Brazilian ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND30_REE_WATER_CHEMISTRY -55.0,-2.75,-55.0,-2.75 1999-05-17T00:00:00Z 2006-05-10T00:00:00Z 2012-11-26T05:00:00Z

This data set reports the results of chemical analyses of rainfall, throughfall, litter leachate, and soil water samples collected before, during, and after a rainfall exclusion experiment conducted ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2001 -180.0,-55.0,180.0,90.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-11-02T04:00:00Z

The 2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) utilizes a refined methodology based on the 2000 Pilot ESI effort, to construct an index covering 122 countries that measures the overall progress ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_GLDAS_NOAH10_3H_V020 -180.0,-60.0,180.0,90.0 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z

Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (hereafter, GLDAS-2) has two components: one forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing data (hereafter, GLDAS-2.0), and the other forced ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_GLDAS_NOAH10_M_V020 -180.0,-60.0,180.0,90.0 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z

Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (hereafter, GLDAS-2) has two components: one forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing data (hereafter, GLDAS-2.0), and the other forced ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_NLDAS_MOS0125_H_V002 -125.0,25.0,-67.0,53.0 1979-01-02T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z

This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the Mosaic land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_NLDAS_MOS0125_M_V002 -125.0,25.0,-67.0,53.0 1979-01-02T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z

This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the Mosaic land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). The data are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_NLDAS_NOAH0125_H_V002 -125.0,25.0,-67.0,53.0 1979-01-02T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z

This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the Noah land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). The data are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_NLDAS_NOAH0125_M_V002 -125.0,25.0,-67.0,53.0 1979-01-02T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z

This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the Noah land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). The data are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SNF_CJ_SITES -92.5058,47.6575,-91.7658,48.1697 1984-05-10T00:00:00Z 1984-06-12T00:00:00Z 2012-10-24T04:00:00Z

This data set documentation is currently in work. In the interim, an abstract of the entire Superior National Forest (SNF) data collection activity from which the SNF Site Characterization Data: C.Jarvis ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]VEMAP_1_SOIL -124.5,25.0,-67.0,49.0 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP) is an ongoing multiinstitutional, international effort addressing the response of biogeography and biogeochemistry to environmental variability ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CDIAC_NDP18 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z 1986-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-10-23T04:00:00Z

This package contains worldwide soil carbon and nitrogen data for more than 3,500 soil profiles. The database was begun about 40 years ago with the collection and analyses by Zinke of soil samples ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CD06_CARBON_RESPIRATION -72.7,-2.589,-58.746,10.073 1991-08-12T00:00:00Z 2003-01-26T00:00:00Z 2012-10-04T04:00:00Z

This data set provides measured and calculated variables describing the carbon pools in river waters, CO2 respired from the water and total amount of CO2 evaded, dissolved oxygen isotopes (delta 18O-O2), ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND06_LANDUSE_STUDIES -80.0,-18.0,-35.0,5.0 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-05-14T00:00:00Z 2012-10-04T04:00:00Z

This data set provides measurements of soil properties compiled from 39 studies on nutrient dynamics in natural forests and forest-derived land uses (pasture, shifting cultivation and tree plantations) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND07_15N_LEAVES_SOIL -47.8506,-15.9328,-47.8506,-15.9328 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z 2000-09-30T00:00:00Z 2012-10-04T04:00:00Z

This data set provides (1) delta 15N ratios and nitrogen concentrations for foliar samples and (2) delta 13C and delta 15N ratios as well as carbon and nitrogen concentrations for soil samples collected ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND07_NO_FLUX_CERRADO -47.8506,-15.9328,-47.8506,-15.9328 2004-03-22T00:00:00Z 2004-11-25T00:00:00Z 2012-10-04T04:00:00Z

This data set reports the results of soil nitric oxide (NO) flux, soil moisture, and soil nitrate (NO3) and ammonium (NH4) concentration measurements on Cerrado soils receiving nitrogen fertilization. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND30_LITTER_PARA -47.7833,-15.9328,-47.3667,-1.2667 2000-10-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-31T00:00:00Z 2012-10-04T04:00:00Z

This data set provides fine litterfall mass and nutrient concentrations from samples collected at chronosequences established at Sao Francisco do Para and Capitao Poco, Para, Brazil. Nitrogen (N) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND01_STREAM_CHEMISTRY -64.43,-12.63,-60.701,-8.0 1998-08-02T00:00:00Z 1999-01-28T00:00:00Z 2012-09-27T04:00:00Z

This data set provides the results of (1) synoptic streamwater sampling and analyses from numerous sites across Rondonia and (2) corresponding watershed characteristics derived from remote sensing ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND02_SOIL_GASES_REE -55.0,-2.75,-55.0,-2.75 1999-12-09T00:00:00Z 2002-06-14T00:00:00Z 2012-09-27T04:00:00Z

This data set reports soil carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) concentrations and soil volumetric water content (VWC) from a rainfall exclusion experiment that was conducted at the km 67 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ND03_STREAMS_SOILWATER -62.811,-10.156,-62.811,-10.156 1994-04-24T00:00:00Z 2001-09-12T00:00:00Z 2012-09-27T04:00:00Z

This data set provides the results of (1) the physical and chemical characterization of streams and (2) comparable chemical analyses of extracted soil water in the Aldeia River basin at Fazenda Nova ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]TG07_ROOT_MORTALITY_LONGTERM -54.9707,-3.017,-54.9707,-3.017 2000-06-04T00:00:00Z 2001-07-14T00:00:00Z 2012-09-27T04:00:00Z

This data set reports measurements of trace gas fluxes of methane (CH4), nitric oxide (N2O), nitrous oxide (NO), carbon dioxide (CO2) from soils at a study site in the Tapajos National Forest (TNF), ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]mapssv1 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

MAPSS (Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System) is a landscape to global vegetation distribution model that was developed to simulate the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]MD_CD03_MESOSCALE -54.924,-3.35,-54.924,-3.35 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z 2006-08-22T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

We analyzed rainfall obtained in a network of 38 rain gauges located near the confluence of the Tapajos and Amazon rivers in the eastern Amazon Basin. We found that tipping bucket rain gauges work ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBACD04METFLUXES -54.9707,-3.017,-54.9707,-3.017 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z 2004-03-12T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

We used two independent approaches, biometry and micrometeorology, to determine the net ecosystem production (NEP) of an old growth forest in Para, Brazil. Biometric inventories indicated that the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CD08_Ecosystem_Resp_Manaus -60.2093,-2.6091,-60.1152,-2.589 2000-07-29T00:00:00Z 2001-08-15T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

Understanding how tropical forest carbon balance will respond to global change requires knowledge of individual heterotrophic and autotrophic respiratory sources, together with factors that control ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LC15_AGLB -82.7209,-21.1277,-33.5739,13.8583 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

The amount and spatial distribution of forest biomass in the Amazon basin is a major source of uncertainty in estimating the flux of carbon released from land-cover and landuse change. Direct measurements ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA_ND11_NTLL -60.03,-2.518,-60.03,-2.518 2002-07-11T00:00:00Z 2002-10-15T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

It has been proposed that the C/N ratio, or quality, of litter or mulch mixtures affects N release. Although total N release from these mixtures and the effects on soil N are relatively well understood, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA_ND11_SPFHC -58.7597,-10.4249,-58.7597,-10.4249 2004-05-01T00:00:00Z 2004-08-18T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

The northwestern region of Mato Grosso State consists of complex landscapes due to ongoing geomorphologic activity that contributes to the occurrence of different soil classes over small distances, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA_TG07_STGFARM -54.9707,-3.017,-54.9707,-3.017 2000-06-04T00:00:00Z 2001-05-15T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

We conducted an experiment on sand and clay tropical forest soils to test the short-term effect of root mortality on the soil-atmosphere flux of nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, methane, and carbon dioxide. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LBA_TG07_TGF -54.9707,-3.017,-54.9707,-3.017 2000-01-19T00:00:00Z 2002-02-26T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

Selective logging is an extensive land use in the Brazilian Amazon region. We studied the soil-atmosphere fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), nitric oxide (NO), methane (CH4), and carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PRE-LBA_CABARE -65.0,-13.0,-60.0,-8.0 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z

Surface parameter digital maps of vegetation, soil, and topography were obtained for Rondonia, Brazil, covering the 5x5 degree region bounded by 13-8 degrees S and 65-60 degrees W. Numerical maps ...